I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 192

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Chapter 192

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The moment Mint turned her back and left through the door.

‘Hades’ let out a languid sigh.

Soon after, a single tear slowly rolled down from his eyes and dropped.

“Oh my.”

‘Hades’ muttered without emotion, somehow having produced a cigar in his hand from nowhere.

“If it were me, I wouldn’t have acted like such an idiot. Tsk tsk.”

‘Hades’ clicked his tongue then burst into giggles. The tears he was shedding now belonged to Hades.

Just a single drop.

Whether it was regret, sadness, or perhaps another kind of anger and hatred, who knows. What does it matter to him.

It wasn’t his.

“Quite impressive though.”

‘Hades’ had understood Mint’s meaning well. Though it sounded like rejecting a confession, in the end she was saying these were words that should never have been spoken to you.

She was telling him to keep his other personality in check.

She probably wanted to say this to the personality that wasn’t present here.

If you don’t want to die, let’s never see each other again.

The Kia flowing out along with it was showing a warning.

What a sharp woman.

But it was quite impressive.

‘Hades’ could tell that whatever else might be true, that woman could become the perfect partner for him.

He could tell from just a single meeting.

A rational and cold person who could abandon morality when necessary.

Indeed, it made sense that she would feel a kindred disgust toward him.

“My goodness, I might almost fall for her myself.”

Of course, since he was a personality with love excised from him, that would never happen.

This was a joke only ‘Hades’ could make.

“What to do, now he won’t even be able to confess.”

‘Hades’ giggled.

Toward the Hades within himself.

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I stood in the garden and yawned long.

‘How drowsy.’

Before long, I felt a presence approaching me with large strides. I smiled without even turning around.

And only when I heard rough breathing did I turn my head.

“You came?”

The weather was a bit on the warm side.

For a Kia User who rarely sweated to be sweating, he must have been in quite a hurry.

Helios glared at me while breathing heavily.

I obediently raised both hands.

“I didn’t run away.”

Ah, come to think of it, isn’t this the exact same pose that ‘Hades’ guy took earlier?

Feeling a bit displeased, I lowered my hands. Instead, I waved them gently as if greeting.

“I waited here obediently. Look.”

I pointed toward the deserted grass field. It was the path leading to the carriage garage that I had reached by asking passing attendants for directions.

“…Why are you standing here?”

The frown on his handsome face showed no signs of disappearing.

“I thought here would be better than there.”

“…”

“Hm? Would it have been better if I stayed there instead?”

“No.”

Warm body heat enveloped me. I gently stroked the back of the man who, despite being much larger than me, burrowed into me like a beast.

This was also a method I had learned from Helios in bed. Stop clawing and just touch.

“Don’t cry.”

“…I’m not crying.”

I patted his back gently.

Nothing probably happened with ‘Hades’, but I came out to wait because I thought Helios would be furious if he found us alone together.

“Now you can know where I am no matter where I go.”

At that, faint Kia flowed out from Helios’s body as if to show off.

I looked at the blue cord that had appeared on my wrist and smiled softly.

“What is this, possessiveness?”

“…It’s something much worse than that.”

Helios kissed my neck and then raised his head.

The urgency had mostly disappeared from his sharp face. That it wasn’t completely gone, well…

Would it fade with time?

‘Would I feel regret then?’

We soon boarded the carriage that would take us back. It was still a truly quiet carriage.

“Helios.”

As soon as we got in the carriage, I blocked with my hand the lips that came toward me as he pressed down on me.

Helios’s eyebrows furrowed with displeasure.

“Let’s talk for a moment first.”

“…Didn’t you want this too, Master?”

“I do want it. But if we get started now, I feel like we’ll be at it until tomorrow.”

“…”

At that, Helios obediently straightened his upper body. His cheeks were slightly flushed.

“What did you talk about with the Emperor?”

“Should I speak first?”

“Should I go first?”

Since I didn’t mind either way, I asked this, and Helios shook his head slightly.

He sat up straight, and saying this was something he couldn’t give up on, he suddenly seated me sideways on his lap.

Hmm, it’s a bit uncomfortable, but I like the way he looks down at me, so I’ll endure it.

“…I came to the Imperial Palace quite often during my childhood.”

Helios began while holding me in his arms.

It seemed Helios had come to the Imperial Palace more frequently than expected during his childhood.

The Emperor had requested to see young Helios.

“Strangely, I often got the feeling that Father disliked these meetings.”

Both Limnades, which I belonged to, and Helios’s Alpeion were families of dogs that could even pretend to die for the Emperor.

The Previous Duke Alpeion must have also been a loyal hound to the Emperor, so why would he dislike audiences?

“Your father must have been a loyal retainer, yet he disliked it – how curious.”

At my words, Helios made a strange expression.

“What’s wrong?”

“…Master, do you happen to know about the bet between the Emperor and my father?”

That? I know about it.

Wasn’t it something absurd that I heard about from the Warden?

There’s no reason to hide it anymore. I nodded.

I felt Helios’s arms holding me tighten slightly.

“That bet had a secret that no one knew about.”

To me, the Previous Duke Alpeion was an abuser and madman from a book.

And the Emperor was the father who gave birth to pleasure criminals, so I likewise thought of him as an abnormal human.

In the end, I thought it was abnormal bastards making bets over a human.

“I thought there were many strange humans in the world, and your father and the Emperor were among them. Is that not the case?”

“Well, you’re not wrong. Certainly… Father wasn’t normal.”

Helios smiled slightly.

“Alpeion is literally a family created to clean up the Imperial family’s dirty work, like hunting dogs. But no master leaves hunting dogs free.”

“They put a collar on them?”

“Something like that.”

Helios tapped his own head lightly.

“They say Alpeion children have a ‘seal’ carved by the Imperial family the moment they’re born.”

Certainly, if it’s carved into the body, I wouldn’t have seen it.

‘I can’t examine every inch of someone’s mind.’

I felt slightly displeased. At the fact that someone had placed constraints on Helios.

“This thing, which is close to a curse, is like Brainwashing Kia that forces absolute obedience and loyalty to the Imperial family’s words.”

“It’s not similar to Brainwashing Kia – it’s exactly the same.”

It seemed the Imperial family had controlled the increasingly influential Alpeion Ducal House in this way.

This is definitely a story that didn’t appear in the original work.

“The Emperor watched me from childhood and saw that I had an inappropriate disposition to be kept as a hunting dog beside the future Emperor.”

Well, hunting dogs are essentially like dirty work disposal units. For such work, my disciple is far too noble and righteous.

“Father was displeased with the curse engraved in Alpeion’s mind. That’s when the Emperor’s side proposed a wager.”

“….”

“Whether one could stand at the pinnacle in a place filled with the worst evil.”

This content also appeared in the novel.

Helios, one of the male leads who was unjustly framed as a criminal and brought in.

“If he claimed the pinnacle, they publicly declared they would acknowledge his qualifications as a hunting dog in the future and free only me from the ‘curse.'”

“….”

“It was also what Father desired.”

Helios’s expression became enigmatic once again as he said this. It seemed like he was smiling, yet also like an expression before crying.

“…I see.”

If there’s one thing different from the novel’s content, it’s me. The Warden called me to make the ‘distinguished guest’ become the boss of the prison.

Probably the Previous Duke Alpeion’s side bribed the Warden to use me.

“Your father hired me, it seems.”

Helios fell silent. Soon it was a silence that was as good as affirmation.

“Yes, that’s probably right.”

“Then, have you escaped from that curse?”

If he still hasn’t escaped from it, I might be able to solve it.

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